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Was that not "Covid" year also. I seem to recall watching those meetings from bend four. Agreed on the non Sat night , I think that would be speedway suicide if a promoter took that option , as change of racenight was always a factor previously.

Solid heatleader trio for Oxford. Now important that they can get a strong reserve as that should keep them competitive home and away with that heatleader trio.

From the Ekstraliga site . Great Britain – dates of league matches on Mondays and Thursdays, Sweden – on Tuesdays, Denmark – on Wednesdays, and Poland (PGEE / M2E) – on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Speedway attendances always strugged at Arlington when not on a Sat evening. From the Ekstraliga website it statea GB dates Mon + Thurs. Not sure that would guarantee the best of attendances at Eastbourne. The crowd generally was not a local one, many travelled a fair distance.

On Socials good to see that the fans turned out in good numbers for Woffinden's Testimonial. Whatever you think of Tai , he is a modern day speedway superstar and 3x World Champion - wish him well in his next chapter !! 🤘

Bewley and Holder (if fit) will be nailed on for a Wild Card spot. With the SEC potentially adding an extra Wild Card slot with Madsen Woryna on 34 pts MJJ and Janowski 33pts. Should Janowski win the SEC that may throw a spanner in the Teng Tool Box but if it is 4 Wild Cards - Bewley, Holder, Thomsen, Lindgren (if he wishes to continue in the SGP's ) if Janowski wins through the SEC they may go for Lindgren over Thomsen.

Did see on Socials - Polish journalists mentioning that British Speedway is in talks with PZM and is looking to implement a U21 rule in the reserve spots. One spot for British rider and the other for an international rider - with the hope that Polish juniors get signed or Polish Teams junior riders - could be a costly means of getting junior riders with transport and logistics.

In May Rounf 6 Wroclaw beat Torun 53-38 with only Sayfutdinov 11 and Dudek 10 making double figures Lambert scoring 4 (admitedly in far better form now). Kurtz only managed 3(4) for Sparta. As others have said Wroclaw will need to score heavily early or this is likely to be as one sided as the Witches vs Aces meetin in the UK.

Venues will be released this weekend !!

Can you divulge more ?? As for the result no surprise whatsoever and with the Aces reserves easily outscoring the Witches reserve pairing never in question. I would imagine the Foxhall faithful will only want to see Musielak, Brennan (2nd string) + King returning next season.

After the farcical situation British Speedway was in at the start of the season , it was said that there would be a meeting mid season to determine the strategy for next year with the likely rider shortage created by possible Polish legislation. All I have read in the Speedway Star is that most Championship teams are happy and not looking to move into the Premiership. The silence seems to suggest they are all waiting for Poland Speedway to determine what they are planning as regulations and go from there.

I sat that on X wasn't sure whether it meant the sport or speedway in Poland and was lost in translation. Could it have been in response to sitting at reserve in the SWC ??? He returned from injury this season and just didn't get an opportunity to build his confidence. Got bombed out by Bydgoscz early and struggled at #1 at Ipswich to gain any momentum. When I have seen clips from socials he will have a great race and then fail to score or runs a 3rd place.Just inconsistent but not for the want of trying and lacks some confidence , needs to get to the end of the season and then a take time out and the come back stronger next season whether that in Poland , UK or wherever.

Signed !!

Plenty of effort from Team GB but not enough speed BUT Flint, Wright + Ellis can all be proud of their effort just not at the top level needed to get on the podium. Lambert proved he is at the top of the sport currently and going to be competitive with Vojens and Torun remaining in the SGP series. Australia fully deserved the win and got ahead early and then as the meeting went on picked up the necessary points and remained competitive all night. Superb first corned by Doyle even if with the Gold medal won. Poland should have dropped Kubera out earlier and got Woryna involved earlier sure the Polish press would be pointing fingers. Whether the riders chosen or for having the meeting in a great venue BUT not a permanent race track.

Back in the day , I recall one of the promoters at Eastbourne stating that one stockcar meeting made more money than speedway did in a season.

Going to be a long night for Team GB. Questionable whether that team would have got through the Semi-Final.